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Twist for iOS is a location sharing application that informs someone you’re meeting up with exactly when you’ll arrive. Imagine you’re meeting your family, friends, or business colleagues for dinner, and you’re stuck in traffic. Once you’ve entered your final location and people to share information with for that trip, Twist takes live traffic information,…
Boost Mobile, one of the many mobile virtual network operators who piggy back on Sprint’s dilapidated 3G network, is going to offer a smartphone dubbed the “Hydro” on August 3rd for $130. Said smartphone is made by Kyocera and it’s called the Hydro because it’s splash proof and water proof up to one meter for…
When Apple announced that the three year old iPhone 3GS was going to get iOS 6, that was a huge slap in the face to everyone who bitches and moans about not getting the latest version of Android on their non-Nexus device. Two weeks later Microsoft announced that Windows Phone 8 is going to require…
Don’t say we haven’t “told you so.” Canada’s Rogers Wireless is now officially selling the Sony Xperia ion, asking $49.99 for the device on a three-year contract. Sans any long-term commitments, the price is $549.99, and there are also not-that-affordable one- and two-year contract options, costing $499.99 and $449.99, respectively. Again, the Xperia ion is…
The Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD, which was announced alongside Ascend D Quad at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, will be released in late August. Yu Chengdong, Huawei’s head of the Consumer Business Group and Senior Vice President of Huawei Technologies, turned to Sina Weibo (Chinese version of Twitter) to spread the good news, saying that…
Sprint announced that two of its smartphones, HTC EVO 3D and HTC EVO Design, will finally get the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates “by early August.” And while exact dates were not unveiled, we do know what will be changed: New “refined, evolved” UI that is “simple, beautiful and useful” Face Unlock – so…
Jay & Silent Bob are going mobile with Ice Cap Games launching two iOS games featuring the popular comic duo from the Kevin Smith films – Jay & Silent Bob in Let Us Dance and Jay & Silent Bob in Too Fat to Fly. In the first game, which BTW is free to download, you’ll…
If you want a brand spanking new iPhone 4S, prepare to cough up over $650. Want a Galaxy S III? That’ll be $600 please. The Galaxy Nexus is an absolute bargin at $350, but what about $100? That’s today’s bar for low end smartphones. Sure, such devices typically have QVGA screens and processors that have…
Android has stepped its game up in the security department. The folks over at Ars Technica, has a report that Google’s new version of its mobile operating system, Jelly Bean Android 4.1, is the company’s safest version to date. Moreover, the platform was designed to protect users from malicious installations, thanks to the addition of…
The Wall Street Journal is out with another scoop about the sixth-generation iPhone and yes, it’s about the display again. According to “people familiar with the matter,” Apple is working with Asian manufacturers to make the screen even thinner than before and the way it’s doing so will ultimately enable the display to have better image…